Jill McGivering, China's Oil Painting Village Feels Global Shift. BBC, Oct 26, 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20024706
("Overall figures were hard to verify but one local newspaper report said that exports fell by more than 50% in the first half of this year because of a collapse in Western orders")
Note:
(a) The report mentioned "archly posing Chinese beauties."
archly (adv): "EXTREMELY <archly conservative>" http://www.merriam-webster.com/d ... =0&t=1351639495
(b) The report said, "An artist could typically paint 10 such copies a day, he said. He could knock out 20."